Zimbabwe's Aids Crisis
The complexities involved in the international response to HIV and Aids are everywhere to be seen in the news that necessary to treat Aids, apparently because of a foreign currency crisis. About one in five of the population of Zimbabwe is infected with HIV and some 20,000 people depend on those drugs daily. Astonishingly, the country's annual inflation rate averages more than 900%.
Any analysis of the African Aids crisis specifically will have to seriously consider the role played by local political mismanagement and corruption. It can't all be put down to US administrations, pharmaceutical companies, and the religious right.
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Well said. Some local responsibility is a key to progress in dealing with the crisis. The problem is that some people are afraid to make this point in case it appears racist.